Enduring Cancer - Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi

Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Concealing Cancer  35
2. Cancer Conjugality  64
3. Researching Pain, Practicing Empathy  84
4. Cancer Memoirs  121
5. Cancer Films  142
6. 171Endurance
Notes  183
Bibliography  205
Index  219

About the author

Dwaipayan Banerjee

Summary

Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

Product details

• Authors: Dwaipayan Banerjee
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781478008620
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0862-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography; Critical Global Health: Eviden
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Asiatische Geschichte, Public Health und Präventivmedizin, Indischer Subkontinent, MEDICAL / Public Health, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia